29 Mar 2024 - 1 min read

Your quarterly reminder that Substack is not infrastructure, they’re an aspiring social platform

Jeanna Kadlec on Threads Substack is completely gutting their business right now. Every writer I know is seeing our subscriptions plummet as our “follower” count rises. The whole value proposition of Substack is that it’s a newsletter and writer hub. This latest intervention is indicative of their efforts to

29 Mar 2024 - 1 min read

Ina Fried’s Vision Pro review

Ina Fried: Axios Review: Using Apple’s Vision Pro in Real Life The Vision Pro quickly feels heavy on your face, as others have noted. But using it is also cognitively more complex than just watching TV while doing some work on a phone or laptop. I spent a lot

28 Mar 2024 - 5 min read

The internet disrupts everything (members post)

A short story of a broken furnace, a wealth of information, and the need for experts to save the day. Oh, and the most badass portfolio site I've ever seen.

27 Mar 2024 - 2 min read

404 Media adds full-text RSS for subscribers, and I’d love to do the same (if I can figure out how)

404 Media: 404 Media Now Has a Full Text RSS Feed Since we launched 404 Media in August, the most common request we’ve gotten from our subscribers is for an RSS feed that contains the full text of all of our articles. We are proud and excited to announce

26 Mar 2024 - 1 min read

Bring back the AirPort!

Joe Rosensteel: It’s Time for a New AirPort networking underpins everything that Apple does care about. Every Mac, iPad, Apple TV, HomePod, Vision Pro, and most importantly every iPhone. The iPhone is a cellular device, but when you’re at home, you’re on your Wi-Fi network. If your

25 Mar 2024 - 4 min read

Let’s talk about that 3% number

Well, it seems like transaction info is something people are more interested in than I expected, so I wanted to tackle one more thing. So often in App Store discussions, we talk about Apple’s 30% cut of each in-app purchase on iPhones and how that’s so much higher

22 Mar 2024 - 5 min read

Digital wallets and the “only Apple Pay does this” mythology

Apple Pay is great, but I think there is some misunderstanding out there about the details of how it works.

22 Mar 2024 - 7 min read

A few thoughts on the DOJ’s antitrust case against Apple

I’m no lawyer, and I’m not going to pretend I’m one, so don’t expect me to make any confident legal clams here. That said, I did read the 88-page suit (PDF) against Apple and I have some thoughts. Oh, I also haven’t really looked at

20 Mar 2024 - 5 min read

Love of the game (members post)

Some thoughts about my side projects and (if you'll forgive me) how much joy they currently spark.

20 Mar 2024 - 2 min read

First look at what opting a Threads account into the fediverse will look like

This (shockingly low res) view went up yesterday and shows what the user experience will be like for Threads users when they want to opt into the fediverse. There are so many interesting details here, and honestly I think Meta is doing a fantastic job with how this is being

20 Mar 2024 - 2 min read

A common bug in web apps (and how to fix it)

I think Claude is an underrated contender in the chatbot wars we're currently living through, but they don't have an iOS app. That's not the end of the world as you can save it as a web app to your home screen and get

19 Mar 2024 - 1 min read

Take a breath, save your outrage until WWDC

Abner Li writing for 9to5Google: Apple Might Use Google Gemini to Power Some AI Features on the iPhone According to Bloomberg, there are “active negotiations to let Apple license Gemini, Google’s set of generative AI models, to power some new features coming to the iPhone software this year.” Apple

18 Mar 2024 - 1 min read

My tried and true way of sticking with things

I used to change the monospaced font I use everywhere on my Mac constantly. New ones seem to come out every few months, and I was a moth to a flame with them, but I haven't changed the monospaced font I use on my Mac in a couple

18 Mar 2024 - 1 min read

“AI” as a marketing tool

Yunqi Li writing for Wired: The Tech Behind Taylor Swift Concert Wristbands It’s funny because oftentimes people think there’s GPS in each of the devices, or there’s a lot of advanced AI technology,” says Vincent Leclerc, co-founder and CEO of PixMob in an interview with WSJ. “But

14 Mar 2024 - 2 min read

If you want your movie to have any cultural significance, put it in theaters

Tatiana Siegel writing for Variety: Apple’s Blockbuster Gamble On March 10, the tech giant has 13 shots to take home an Oscar via two historical epics, “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Napoleon,” which nabbed 10 and three nominations, respectively. That’s given Apple the second-biggest haul among the